French dark-haired beauty
Irene Jacob (41), whose sensitive style and versatile career on cinema, stage and music has earned a solid reputation among european art-house starlets, has pushed her own boundaries in nudity as she has performed raunchy erotic scenes for Paolo Franchi's "Nessuna Qualitá Agli Eroi" (AKA Fallen Heroes), her latest movie screened at the Venice Film Festival which caused some stir because of the explicit nature of its sex scenes.
As has been reviewed in several sites, this oppressive, intimate crime-drama about a businessman (Bruno Todeschini) and his wife (Jacob) harassed by a troubled sidekick (Elio Germano) with Oedipus complex gained no cherish reviews indeed, but was hot enough to distraught audiences by the high voltage of its eroticism at a level close to pornography, which has became an usual practice in several mainstream flicks since ground-breaker Breillat's "Romance" turned on the controversy in 1999.
Besides the male and female frontal nudity, the sex scenes are mostly focused in genitalia as seen during the love scene between the marriage, with a close-up shot of Irene's private parts while she is given oral sex by Todeschini, and there also is her dreaming sequence where she appears masturbating the young wannabe killer who has a crush on her. Subsequently, the large size or Germano's full erect talent was one of the most talked about issues over the feature presentation.
Filmmaker Paolo Franchi replied the large amount of criticism over the neverending discussion about how really necessary is the depiction of explicit sex onscreen:
"The sex scenes never are pointless because sexuality is a part of the psyche. There are deep values to find as much in the cunnilingus between Bruno and Anna, which essentially is a quest for the origins, as it does the masturbation that Anna makes to Luca, symbolizing a great anarchical rebellion against all autority in the power of the art depicted as an erotic delirium".
Original articles (Italian language)
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